This album is a remastered version of Intrusion’s (a.k.a. Stephen Hitchell – who has released “The Cold Season” as Echospace in partnership with Rod Modell of Deepchord) debut album, “The Seduction of Silence”, which has been originally released in 2009, and is known as one of the best Dub Techno albums. Prior to this album, Stephen Hitchell had released a drone album, “The Setting Sun” under another project name, Variant. It is interesting that the cover art photo of this Variant’s album is also used for both of Intrusion’s albums in subject, but in different color hues for each of them. In Variant’s album, the photo bears a natural color of light green grass field, but it is processed into a cold blue photo in Intrusion’s album of 2009, and it gets more chemically processed looking as it turns into this remastered version of “The Seduction of Silence”.

Now, let me look back to the reason why “The Seduction of Silence” is said to be one of the best Dub Techno albums. It is our notion that Dub Techno consists of Basic Channel’s minimalism and Echospace’s drone aspect with cold air; and not forgetting the Dub power originating from Reggae factor, of course. However, in spite of having a roots Reggae aspect, I do not find much of Jamaican heat or sweatiness in this album, but rather some sweet warmness of ‘urban paradise’, which is being created by dub effects strangling with melancholic melody of IDM, with Paul St. Hilaire’s voice sounding like an angel’s whisper. And I love this sensitive balance of atmospheric deepness.

This 2CD pack album contains the remastered version of “The Seduction of Silence” and some rare tracks and live tracks never being provided physically before. Obviously, a lot of bits of sounds could be caught in the remastered version, if compared with the original version. However, whether you like the outcome or not is up to you. Some may feel more comfortable listening to the foggy original version for it sounds more atmospheric. However, I think it is worth getting this album, just for the second disc which includes pretty interesting mix tracks. My favorite track is the last track, “Intrusion (Phase 90 Reshape)” which is the mix by Phase 90 (also is Stephen Hitchell himself), that sounds like Dub Techno reconstructed into Industrial oriented Bass Music.